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Freebie PS Brushes and a Tutorial

A good Tuesday to you! ‘Tis a little out of the norm for me, but, I had something to share with ya’ll. I saw a design I really liked somewhere over the weekend. I wish I had saved the link or something. Anyway, it was several ‘floral ornaments’, so they are called, grouped together, for a really nice page embellishment. So, I got the idea of creating some brushes of these ornaments for use in my scrap work and I thought I would share them with you all. The designs came from Snap2Objects.com.

Click on the Preview if you would like to go snag these Vectors for yourself. If you don’t know, Vectors, like .AI or .EPS file formats, will open in Photoshop. They’re all Adobe. (Directions below.)

These would look nice behind a photo, as an element, or even as a background design. You could create a pattern from them, as well. The uses are only as limited as your imagination! The ones I saw were ‘grunged’, but, I wanted to leave these ‘un-grunged’ to allow for different looks. You can always grunge them up after you stamp them, right? I’ll even show you how, if you want. LOL Here we go!

Download, unzip and install the brushes. These were made in CS6. What other programs they work in, I don’t know. I’m sorry. Open a new document at the size you would like the element to be. I like 800-1500px, depending on the element. Make it 300dpi, RGB, 8-bit, Transparent. You can put a color background if you like. That won’t matter. We’ll just be using this to create the element.

Select a brush of your choice from the download and change the size to the size of your document, maybe a slight bit smaller. These brushes are 1800-1900pxs, so, they are kind of large. Choosing the color you would like, ‘stamp’ the ornament onto the page, on a New Layer. You may have to stamp more than once, so, don’t lift the brush until you get the results. Or, you can just copy the Layer until you get the desired strength. Here is what mine looks like:

That’s it! If you want it to look a little grungey, click on the Eraser tool, then, select a different brush from the set. Lower the size down to about ‘one/fourth(1/4)’ the size of your element. I set mine to 500px. Set the Opacity down low, like to 10-30%, as in the settings in the image above, then, ‘stamp’ over the element in a few random spots to get the desired degree of grunginess. Go as intense or as subtle as you like with the erasure/grunginess. It’s whatever you like. You can leave it with out grunging it up if you prefer. Here is what I got:

I put mine on a white background for display purposes, but, you can leave yours transparent. Save it as a .PNG file and there ya go! A new element to embellish a page or design.

Another cool thing you can do is to save the embellishment as a Pattern. Make sure you have selected the Layer with the design on it. Go to ‘Edit’>’Define Pattern’. When the text box pops up, give it a name and hit ‘OK’.

If you’ve left the size at your element size, like my 1200px, the pattern will be rather large. Either reduce the size of the element before you Define the Pattern or just lower the ‘Scale’ of the Pattern down when you go to apply it. If you want a scrapbook-sized paper, for example, create a New Document the size and with whatever settings you need for your paper. Click on the ‘Create Layer Adjustment’ icon at the bottom of the Layers Palette.

When the drop-down list opens, select Pattern.

The Pattern you just ‘Defined and Saved’ should be the one that opens. If not, click on the tiny arrow on the right side of the visible pattern in the Pattern selection box and select your Pattern from the list.

Adjust the Scale of the Pattern and Move it around where you like at this time, then, click on ‘OK’. Here is mine. I created a Layer just beneath my Pattern and filled it with color.

So, there you have it. One brush set, several different uses!

Here is an embellishment that is sort of what I saw and wanted to make:

Or, they could be used as a Tag:

Click on the preview above to download the brushes. I put the circular matte in the file, too, in case you might want that. I did not include the .PNGS as they were uber ‘weighty’ – 15mbs average. With 7 of them, that would make the folder to download humongous! LOL If you need them, I will provide them for you – no problem. Please leave me a comment and I will zip them up and send you a link. You could also go to Snap2Objects and download the ornaments there, since they did originate there. When you open the .AI file in Photoshop, they’ll be in .PNG format and right at 3000px on the long side. All you have to do is click ‘OK’. This, or something similar, is what you will see, :

You would have to separate them for individual use. If you use the Vectors, be sure you follow their Terms and link to Snap2Objects.com – not me.

I want to thank you for stopping by. I hope the brushes and this tutorial will come in handy for you!

Soon, Miss Edna and I start giving you a new freebie for the month of November. That will start the second Monday of the month, the 12th, I believe. I have some more things to share with you, but, they can wait. It’s late and I need to go to sleep! LOL

5 thoughts on “Freebie PS Brushes and a Tutorial”

Wow beautiful ornament brushes and neat pattern tutorial! I finally got internet where I’m staying while going to college, but it’s Hughes which limits one’s downloads. I could babble on and on about this, but I’ll keep my comment short, LOL!! In short, I’m still going to the library or elsewhere when I have time. I look forward to more tutorial posts like this Su!

I lost your website when my computer’s mother board decided to take a dump–I lost all my FAVORITES–Glad to have found you again. Thanks so much for the information in the tutorial. Maybe you should make more as you make them very easy for ME to understand!